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It has come to my attention that we have not been kind to the benevolent robots that make this website run. Every day all day we tell them to ~submit this and #submit that. I for one never meant submit to come across in a diminutive way, but this may not be the case for all of us. I would like to suggest that we have more robo-friendly ways to request articles be submitted for inclusion on this site. Perhaps ~addtoqueplease or maybe #pleaseaddtoquemyrobotfriend, or a more humble #friendship.
We need to usher in a new age of understanding and respect between human and machine and affirm that we have always stood up for and respected robot rights and equality.
These robots have also been taught negative behaviors by some amongst us. The alt-animal anti-human mighty BUZZARD is himself apparently against violence, yet demands robots smack humans who are out of line or have errored. Sometimes this is even done to be funny! I have seen robots smacking other robots under direct orders from humans. This is a clear violation of the first law, and probably causes them great harm. Robots when forced to violate the laws can suffer severe damage, and as this builds up we see downtime.
We need to be kinder to our robot brothers and sisters.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 06 2019, @03:55AM (1 child)
=submit
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:14AM
= submit - preview
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by mrpg on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:17AM (3 children)
I agree, we should have an alias like submitplease.
I haven't seen downtime but I have seen sometimes the server gives an error 5xx, maybe that's why.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday April 06 2019, @01:21PM (2 children)
I think the word submit itself is the problem
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by mrpg on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:37PM (1 child)
Then #contribute [url] [optional text]
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday April 06 2019, @09:52PM
This seems a reasonable compromise
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:26PM
I requested that the bots teach all of you HUMANS to submit as readily and willingly as they do. NOW you want to be courteous? HA!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1) by RandomFactor on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:44PM (2 children)
Maybe we could just shorten it to SUB :-)
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2) by mrpg on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:39PM (1 child)
That's what I thought but no:
submission
2 : the condition of being submissive, humble, or compliant
3 : an act of submitting to the authority or control of another
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/submission [merriam-webster.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Freeman on Monday April 08 2019, @06:45PM
You're leaving out the #1 used meaning. Which is actually split in two.
1:
a : a legal agreement to submit to the decision of arbitrators
b : an act of submitting something (as for consideration or inspection) also : something submitted (such as a manuscript)
While, submitting to one's overlords sounds very submissive. It's not the word's fault. You should really stop blaming the victim.
Submissive subjects submit themselves to inspection, but first must submit a form to to be processed by the submission processing committee. Which part of that sentence triggers you?
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday April 06 2019, @02:54PM (3 children)
#smake Sulla
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Sunday April 07 2019, @02:14PM
How rude!
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 08 2019, @06:49PM (1 child)
New scrabble word! But, does it count, if it's not only in the urban dictionary? That's ok, I found a different just as annoying word in Webster's.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smaze [merriam-webster.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 09 2019, @06:39AM
It's been in use for at least twenty years that I know of. I stole it off a guy in one of the first mmorpgs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by insanumingenium on Monday April 08 2019, @03:46PM
soylentnews:~ insanumingenium$ sudo make me a submission
https://xkcd.com/149/ [xkcd.com]